A guide to thymic selection of T cells

KM Ashby, KA Hogquist - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The thymus is an evolutionarily conserved organ that supports the development of T cells.
Not only does the thymic environment support the rearrangement and expression of diverse …

Role of B cells as antigen presenting cells

I Rastogi, D Jeon, JE Moseman, A Muralidhar… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
B cells have been long studied for their role and function in the humoral immune system.
Apart from generating antibodies and an antibody-mediated memory response against …

Blocking PD-L1–PD-1 improves senescence surveillance and ageing phenotypes

TW Wang, Y Johmura, N Suzuki, S Omori, T Migita… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The accumulation of senescent cells is a major cause of age-related inflammation and
predisposes to a variety of age-related diseases. However, little is known about the …

[HTML][HTML] Aerobic glycolysis promotes tumor immune evasion by hexokinase2-mediated phosphorylation of IκBα

D Guo, Y Tong, X Jiang, Y Meng, H Jiang, L Du, Q Wu… - Cell metabolism, 2022 - cell.com
High expression of PD-L1 in tumor cells contributes to tumor immune evasion. However,
whether PD-L1 expression in tumor cells is regulated by the availability of nutrients is …

Cancer cells dying from ferroptosis impede dendritic cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity

B Wiernicki, S Maschalidi, J Pinney, S Adjemian… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Immunogenic cell death significantly contributes to the success of anti-cancer therapies, but
immunogenicity of different cell death modalities widely varies. Ferroptosis, a form of cell …

Mismatch repair deficiency is not sufficient to elicit tumor immunogenicity

PMK Westcott, F Muyas, H Hauck, OC Smith… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
DNA mismatch repair deficiency (MMRd) is associated with a high tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and sensitivity to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy. Nevertheless, most …

Microbiome-derived inosine modulates response to checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy

LF Mager, R Burkhard, N Pett, NCA Cooke, K Brown… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Several species of intestinal bacteria have been associated with enhanced efficacy of
checkpoint blockade immunotherapy, but the underlying mechanisms by which the …

The PD-1 expression balance between effector and regulatory T cells predicts the clinical efficacy of PD-1 blockade therapies

S Kumagai, Y Togashi, T Kamada, E Sugiyama… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Immune checkpoint blockade has provided a paradigm shift in cancer therapy, but the
success of this approach is very variable; therefore, biomarkers predictive of clinical efficacy …

[HTML][HTML] Obesity shapes metabolism in the tumor microenvironment to suppress anti-tumor immunity

AE Ringel, JM Drijvers, GJ Baker, A Catozzi… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Obesity is a major cancer risk factor, but how differences in systemic metabolism change the
tumor microenvironment (TME) and impact anti-tumor immunity is not understood. Here, we …

[HTML][HTML] Nociceptor neurons affect cancer immunosurveillance

M Balood, M Ahmadi, T Eichwald, A Ahmadi… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Solid tumours are innervated by nerve fibres that arise from the autonomic and sensory
peripheral nervous systems,,,–. Whether the neo-innervation of tumours by pain-initiating …